Commerce Drops Plan to Limit Researchers

To the relief of college researchers, the U.S. Commerce Department has abandoned a plan that would have restricted foreign students' and scholars' access to sensitive technology based on their countries of birth rather than their countries of citizenship or permanent residency.

That plan, which appeared in early versions of a proposed rule that the department is expected to issue in the coming months, could have required American colleges and universities to obtain export-control

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